Hypertension

PROGRESS in hypertension has not been reported in this section before, although certain forms of treatment have been discussed. It has been our endeavor to describe, in the first place, the general progress that has been made in the field and, secondly, the recent investigative work. To accomplish this we have organized the material as follows: general etiologic theories, recent investigative work, recent work in pathology, treatment, and the natural history and evolution of essential hypertension derived from follow-up studies.EtiologyProgress in the knowledge of hypertension may be considered to have taken place in hundred-year cycles: Harvey discovered the . . .